European Metal Recycling resumed phased operations at its scrap shredder in Camden, New Jersey, after a court overturned the temporary suspension of its licence. The facility had been idled following a fire and must meet additional safety requirements before fully restarting. EMR has introduced a new lithium-ion battery fire-risk framework, while local residents remain concerned about repeated fires and smoke exposure.

On July 10, a delegation from the Vietnam Metal Recycling Forum (VMRF) — including Anh, Tran Thi Van, Phuong and Hoang Minh — visited the headquarters of Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) in Shanghai. SMM CEO Logan Lu welcomed the guests, alongside Horin Dong (Senior Overseas Marketing Manager), Cindy Zhang (Global Recycled Metals Project Manager), Date Song (Global BD Manager, Base Metals Conferences & Events Team), and Catherine Zhan (Overseas Marketing Manager). The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions covering Southeast Asia’s recycled metals industrial chain services, overseas market expansion, and joint industry summit cooperation. During the visit, SMM shared its latest global strategic layout. Against the backdrop of robust demand in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South Asia, SMM has set up new offices in Vietnam, South Korea, India and Zambia, forming a multi-regional overseas hub network. Through these local touchpoints, SMM will move closer to the upstream and downstream of local industry chains, providing more efficient one-stop market services to partners in Vietnam, ASEAN, and beyond for the recycled metals, aluminum, lead-acid battery, and ferrous metals sectors. In addition, SMM also introduced three major industry events it will hold in ASEAN in H2: 2026 SMM Global Lead-Acid Battery Supply Chain Industry Conference (Nov 19-20) in Ho Chi Minh City; SMM AICE 2026 Southeast Asia (Vietnam) Aluminium Conference (Nov 23-24) in Ho Chi Minh City; -SMM ASEAN Ferrous Metals Summit 2026 (Nov 26-27) in Malaysia Notably, in 2025, SMM Chairman Adam Fan led Catherine Zhan, SMM's Overseas Marketing Manager, on a trip to Vietnam to meet the VMRF team, where SMM introduced its comprehensive core businesses and service capabilities, including multi-commodity information, price data, industry surveys, and conferences and exhibitions, building a solid bridge for future cooperation. Now, a year later, this return visit by VMRF is of great significance to SMM and marks a further deepening of bilateral cooperation. Group Photo of VMRF at the 2025 SMM APAC Lead-Acid Battery Industry Conference in Vietnam Group Photo of the 2025 SMM Visit to VMRF VMRF was established to connect enterprises, recycling plants, traders, and partners within Vietnam's metal recycling industry. As a platform for sharing information, reports, market trends, and technology, VMRF is committed to helping its members achieve sustainable development and elevate industry standards. Since forging ties with VMRF at last year's offline event in Vietnam, SMM has placed great importance on the friendly cooperation with VMRF. In the future, SMM is looking forward to establishing a long-term, stable, and normalized deep collaboration mechanism with VMRF, continuously carrying out joint efforts in industry exchanges, market information sharing, and summit co-promotion. Leveraging SMM's multiple Southeast Asian industry conferences, both sides will strive to build a supply-demand matching platform and jointly support the standardized and international development of Vietnam's recycled metal industry chain.

Shyam Steel Group has opened its first overseas manufacturing facility in the UAE’s Hamriyah Free Zone, with an initial investment of AED 60 million. The plant will focus on non-ferrous metal recycling and alloy production, with annual capacity of 24,000 tonnes of aluminium alloys and 6,000 tonnes of copper alloys.

The north is the core hinterland of China's cable industry. Relying on its industrial heritage, complete entire industry chain support, and favorable policies from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, it has built a complete industrial cluster integrating raw material processing, cable production, new material R&D, and intelligent equipment manufacturing. The regional cable industry boasts an annual output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, with a solid industrial foundation and broad market space. Compared with the advantageous industrial clusters of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, the northern cable industry still faces shortcomings such as scattered industrial resources, weak industry-academia-research collaboration, and insufficient risk resistance capability of the industry chain. Breaking down collaboration barriers has become key to industry upgrading. will be held from July 23 to 24, 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Qingdao Jinshui, Shandong . The conference focuses on three major themes: industrial collaboration, green intelligence, and globalization. SMM , together with Runli (Shandong) Resource Recycling Industry Co., Ltd. , invites customers from the entire industry chain to gather, explore industry opportunities, and promote the quality and upgrading of the northern cable industry. Click to attend. We look forward to meeting you at the conference. Runli (Shandong) Resource Recycling Industry Co., Ltd. is a large-scale comprehensive renewable resource recycling enterprise in the Shandong region, focusing on non-ferrous metal recycling. It integrates online and offline collection channels, and has built a modern recycling industrial base covering recycling and warehousing, intelligent sorting, metal purification, and finished product production and sales. The company adheres to compliant operations, holds complete environmental protection operation qualifications and standardized management processes, strictly controls pollutant discharge in every production step, and takes resource reduction, reuse, and recycling as its core development direction. It helps reduce industrial solid waste, lowers raw material costs for manufacturing, and supports the regional green economy and the implementation of the "dual carbon" goals. It is committed to becoming a professional and reliable renewable resource recycling service provider in the North China region. Its business covers various types of industrial copper scrap off-cuts, waste cables, dismantled metals from obsolete equipment, comprehensive solid waste from factories, and other categories. It has a professional dismantling and sorting team and supporting environmental protection facilities, and the entire process meets environmental protection-related control requirements. It can stably supply copper scrap in large quantities, meeting the production needs of downstream processing industries such as cables, hardware, and conductive materials. The company has established standardized quality control and logistics distribution systems. Leveraging mature industry resources and years of practical experience, it balances economic benefits with ecological responsibility, proactively promotes the transformation and upgrading of the resource recycling industry, empowers resource recycling with technology, and builds a large-scale, intelligent, and green comprehensive resource recycling industry platform. Collaborate with upstream and downstream partners to build a low-carbon industrial ecosystem, and create a regional benchmark comprehensive utilization enterprise for renewable resources. Contact Information Shang Yiying 139 2018 5888 SMM Conference Contact Zhang Guolei 166 0190 0190 zhangguolei@smm.cn

India's Dhanvanti Engineering has completed over 250 non-ferrous metal recycling projects and strengthened its presence across India, the Middle East and Africa. Its proprietary Tilting Rotary Furnace (TRF) technology has been successfully adopted in aluminium alloy ingots, wire rods, extrusion and copper recycling, helping improve metal recovery, reduce energy consumption and support sustainable metal recycling worldwide.

SMM Morning Meeting Minutes: Last Friday night, LME copper opened at $13,354.5/mt, dipped to $13,343/mt shortly after the opening, then drifted slightly higher to a high of $13,392/mt before settling at $13,357.5/mt, up 0.54%. Trading volume reached 8,500 lots, and open interest stood at 250,000 lots, a decrease of 587 lots from the previous trading day, indicating bears reduced positions. Last Friday night, the most-traded SHFE copper 2608 contract opened at 102,710 yuan/mt. The price center dipped to 102,710 yuan/mt after the opening, then moved in a "W" shape. Near the close, it reached a high of 103,010 yuan/mt, and finally settled at 102,790 yuan/mt, up 0.14%. Trading volume was 16,300 lots, and open interest was 151,000 lots, a decrease of 811 lots from the previous trading day, indicating bulls reduced positions.